https://communities.bentley.com/products/ram-staad/f/ram-staad-forum/114340/staad-plates-axial-and-shear-forceCan staad plates can analyze and design a shear wall? If can meaning plates can carry shear force and axial forces? Because I&#39;m designing residential and client want as soon as possible they want column should same width of a hollow blocks let sayen-USTelligent Community 12https://communities.bentley.com/thread/350089?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 16 Dec 2015 10:26:15 GMT6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:a2d7aa7f-674e-467d-b6e5-a8ccfdb0da6bIronMaxSteelRCDC is only INDIAN CODE, I know only moment does plate can design. But this can be done too by getting the maximum stress acting in the plates and just do manual calculation for the design.<div style="clear:both;"></div>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/350087?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 16 Dec 2015 10:09:05 GMT6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:d9436b1b-0d29-4d23-8bfe-11c5fc577543BiswatoshIn Staad, design of the plate element is only considered with respect to the local MX and MY moments. The axial (in-plane stress) component is not considered. You may want to use the the RCDC software where you can model and design the various irregular shape of column section.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://communities.bentley.com/products/structural/structural_analysis___design/f/5932/t/114126">communities.bentley.com/.../114126</a><div style="clear:both;"></div>